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"Mr President, Baroness Ashton, Mr Šefčovič, ladies and gentlemen, I am also wearing two hats today. I am speaking both as rapporteur for the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and as shadow rapporteur for the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance. In both of these roles, I am deputising for my colleague, Mrs Brantner, who gave birth to a daughter about six weeks ago and has therefore handed her work over to me. I would like to thank her very much at this point for all her preparatory work and her support.
The Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality put the emphasis on the question of equality of the sexes among the staff of the European External Action Service (EEAS). We have succeeded in ensuring an equal balance of men and women in the agreement and, Baroness Ashton, I am hoping for your commitment in this area. I am assuming that you will also apply the principle of equality of opportunity for men and women and equal treatment for men and women at work which is enshrined in Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and will ensure representation on all levels, including Heads of Delegation, when appointing your staff.
As shadow rapporteur for the Greens, I would like to thank Mr Brok, Mr Verhofstadt and Mr Gualtieri for their cooperation. I would also like to explain that we have worked together to introduce a large number of improvements to the original draft in order to create a coherent, common and more effective European foreign policy. This is why my group is supporting this report and will vote in favour of it tomorrow. The report includes a strong human rights structure, guarantees for development policy, an increase in our democratic control, for example, future EU ambassadors will have to take part in a hearing in front of this House before taking up their positions, and a transparent budget for foreign policy.
Our enthusiasm was somewhat dampened by the fact that there are no clear structures for civil crisis management and prevention. In addition, the EEAS will offer few consular services for the citizens of Europe. We want to see a strong framework for civil crisis prevention and management and for peace building, with a focus on civil issues.
The compromise is not exactly what we wanted, but with goodwill and an ambitious approach, Baroness Ashton, it will still be possible to implement it. However, this will only work if your intention is to ensure that individual national interests are pushed into the background, in particular, with regard to the priority given to military matters, which France has been highlighting in recent weeks.
You must take an ambitious approach to putting our common European thoughts and actions into effect. You should make sure that you have the support of Parliament and not focus on the interests of individual Member States."@en1
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